Children: Day Care

John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many  (a) public and  (b) private sector child care places there are in (i) Leeds Metropolitan District and (ii) Leeds West constituency.

Beverley Hughes: The information is not available in the form requested.
	Since 2003 Ofsted has been responsible for the registration and inspection of child care providers. The table shows the number of places registered with Ofsted at 31 March 2008 for Leeds local authority.
	
		
			  Number of registered child care places in Leeds, position as at 31 March 2008-06-06 
			   Childminders  Full day care  Out of school day care 
			 Places 4,900 8,500 5,300 
			  Notes: 1 Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 if under 100, and to the nearest 100 if over 100. 2. Excludes the number of child care places in sessional day care and crèche day care.  Source: Ofsted 
		
	
	Data from the 2006 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey on the number and proportion of child care providers in England by type of ownership is only available at national level.

Children: Day Care

Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the level of provision of formal childcare during school holidays in each of the last four years.

Beverley Hughes: Information is not available in the form requested.
	The estimated number of childcare providers in operation, from the Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey, is shown in Table 1.
	
		
			  Table 1: Numbers of childcare providers 
			   2003  2005  2006 
			 Full day care 9,964 11.811 12,694 
			 Full day care in children's centres n/a n/a 823 
			 Sessional 11,892 9,966 9,681 
			 After school clubs 4,534 n/a 7,656 
			 Holiday clubs 2/781 n/a 6,386 
			 Childminders n/a 57,662 57,855 
			 n/a = Not available.   Notes:  1.  Children's centres were included in the survey for the first time in 2006; therefore data is not available for previous years.  2. After school and holiday clubs were sampled differently in 2005 and comparable figures for this year are not available. 
		
	
	There were 6,386 holiday clubs in 2006, an increase of 130 from the corresponding number of 2,781 in 2003. Other types of childcare providers were asked whether they were also open in school holidays. Table 2 shows the proportion of childcare providers who said that they were open in holidays, for each year available.
	
		
			  Table 2: Proportion of childcare providers open during school holidays 
			   2003 (%)  2005 (%)  2006 (%) 
			 Full day care n/a 79 72% 
			 Children's centres n/a n/a 96 
			 Sessional n/a 8 5 
			 Childminders 90 92 90 
			 n/a = Not available.   Notes: 1. Children's centres were included in the survey for the first time in 2008; therefore data is not available for previous years.  2. After school clubs were not asked about holiday opening hours, although 54 per cent. of after school clubs in the 2006 survey were open for 39 weeks a year.

Local Government: Pensions

Bob Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 16 May 2008,  Official Report, columns 1798-99W, on local government: pensions, if she will publish figures for the total cost broken down in each year for individual constituent local authority pension scheme groupings within the broader Local Government Pension Scheme.

John Healey: The information requested is shown in the following table. This data represents the actual amount of contributions paid by employers participating in the Local Government Pension Scheme based on SF3 annual returns submitted to Communities and Local Government by Scheme administering authorities in England. Statistical data relating to the LGPS from 1999-2000 onwards can be found at:
	http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/stats/pensions.htm
	
		
			  £ million 
			   Shire  c ounties  Metropolitan  d istricts  Inner London  Outer London  Other  a uthorities  Total 
			 1996-97 734 301 103 110 76 1,322 
			 1997-98 848 338 121 130 83 1,520 
			 1998-99 1,021 383 133 154 98 1,788 
			 1999-00 1,131 401 159 171 110 1,972 
			 2000-01 1,323 461 168 195 124 2,273 
			 2001-02 1,534 545 181 216 141 2,617 
			 2002-03 1,632 626 260 236 162 2,916 
			 2003-04 1,874 680 214 275 174 3,217 
			 2004-05 2,070 748 233 308 186 3,544 
			 2005-06 2,374 863 300 357 230 4,124 
			 2006-07 2,653 977 331 404 260 4,626

National Income

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the gross value added was in  (a) London and  (b) each region on the latest date for which figures are available.

Tom Watson: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
	 Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated  6  June 2008:
	As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question about the difference in gross value added (GVA) between London and the rest of the UK. (208824)
	The Office for National Statistics publishes regional GVA using official statistical geographies known as Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics (NUTS). NUTS1 data covers the Government Office Regions of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
	GVA for the NUTS1 regions for 2006 (the latest year for which data are available), each region's percentage share of the UK's GVA, GVA per head and GVA per head indices are shown in the table below.
	
		
			  NUTS1 regional GVA( 1,2)  2006( 3) 
			  Region  Total (£ billion)  Share of UK (percentage)  Per head (£)  Per head index (UK=100) 
			 United Kingdom(4) 1,128.80 100 18,631 100 
			  
			 North-east 38.8 3.4 15,177 81 
			 North-west 111.3 9.9 16,234 87 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber 82.1 7.3 15,968 86 
			 East midlands 74.1 6.6 16,982 91 
			 West midlands 89.0 7.9 16,583 89 
			 East of England 109.9 9.7 19,599 105 
			 London 196.8 17.4 26,192 141 
			 South-east 177.2 15.7 21,514 115 
			 South-west 89.5 7.9 17,467 94 
			 England 968.6 85.8 19,082 102 
			 Wales 42.7 3.8 14,396 77 
			 Scotland 91.0 8.1 17,789 95 
			 Northern Ireland 26.4 2.3 15,175 81 
			 (1) GVA at current basic prices on residence basis. (2) Figures may not sum due to founding in totals, per head {) figures are rounded to the nearest pound. (3) 2006 estimates are provisional. (4) Excluding Extra-regio (off-shore contribution to GVA that cannot be assigned to any region).

Debts

David Willetts: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average  (a) gross debt and  (b) gross savings (excluding debt secured on housing) was by (i) 20, (ii) 25, (iii) 30, (iv) 35, (v) 40, (vi) 45, (vii) 50, (viii) 55, (ix) 60, (x) 65 and (xi) over 65 years olds in (A) 1980, (B) 1985, (C) 1990, (D) 1995, (E) 2000, (F) 2005 and (G) 2007, broken down by sex.

Angela Eagle: Data on gross debt and gross savings are published by the Office for National Statistics on a quarterly and annual basis. However, this data is not disaggregated by age.

Housing: Finance

David Willetts: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average  (a) housing wealth and  (b) debt secured on housing was by owner-occupiers aged (i) 20, (ii) 25, (iii) 30, (iv) 35, (v) 40, (vi) 45, (vii) 50, (viii) 55, (ix) 60, (x) 65 and (xi) over 65 years old in (A) 1980, (B) 1985, (C) 1990, (D) 1995, (E) 2000, (F) 2005 and (G) 2007.

Angela Eagle: Data on housing wealth and debt secured on housing are published by the Office for National Statistics on a quarterly and annual basis. However, this data is not disaggregated by age and gender.